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Job Description
Conduct research to reconstruct record of past human life and culture from human remains, artifacts, architectural features, and structures recovered through excavation, underwater recovery, or other means of discovery.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 19-3091.02
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Archeologists”.
Also Known As…
- Archeologists
- Research Archaeologist
- Project Director
- Principal Archaeologist
- Director of Research Center
- Curator
- Associate Director
- Archaeologist
- Research Professor
- Egyptologist
- Director and Professor
- Director
Tasks for “Research Archaeologist”
- Consult site reports, existing artifacts, and topographic maps to identify archeological sites.
- Research, survey, or assess sites of past societies and cultures in search of answers to specific research questions.
- Clean, restore, and preserve artifacts.
- Describe artifacts' physical properties or attributes, such as the materials from which artifacts are made and their size, shape, function, and decoration.
- Compare findings from one site with archeological data from other sites to find similarities or differences.
- Write, present, and publish reports that record site history, methodology, and artifact analysis results, along with recommendations for conserving and interpreting findings.
- Create a grid of each site and draw and update maps of unit profiles, stratum surfaces, features, and findings.
- Collect artifacts made of stone, bone, metal, and other materials, placing them in bags and marking them to show where they were found.
- Assess archeological sites for resource management, development, or conservation purposes and recommend methods for site protection.
- Lead field training sites and train field staff, students, and volunteers in excavation methods.
- Record the exact locations and conditions of artifacts uncovered in diggings or surveys, using drawings and photographs as necessary.
- Develop and test theories concerning the origin and development of past cultures.
- Teach archeology at colleges and universities.
- Present findings from archeological research to peers and the general public.
- Study objects and structures recovered by excavation to identify, date, and authenticate them and to interpret their significance.
- Create artifact typologies to organize and make sense of past material cultures.
Related Technology & Tools
- 35 millimeter cameras
- Side scan sonars
- Soil samplers
- Dial calipers
- Scanning electron microscopes SEM
- Total stations
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Round point shovels
- Crack hammers
- Polarizing microscopes
- Drying ovens
- Global positioning system GPS receivers
- Triple beam balances
- Alidades
- Bench scales
- Shaker screens
- Stereo zoom microscopes
- Plotters
- Underwater still cameras
- X ray diffractometers
- Rock picks
- Lufkin tape measures
- Sandblasters
- Laser line levels
- Electron microprobes
- Directional compasses
- Pocket loupes
- Dental burs
- Hydraulic drilling rigs
- Safety goggles
- Desktop computers
- Ultrasonic cleaning machines
- Digital levels
- Plains trowels
- Precision rulers
- Cold chisels
- Conductance meters
- Ground penetrating radar GPR
- Marshalltown trowels
- X ray fluorescence XRF spectrometers
- Pneumatic chisels
- Platform scales
- Magnetic stirring bars
- Glass burets
- Flatbed scanners
- Tree ring sampling kits
- Tablet computers
- Metallurgical microscopes
- Slide hammers
- Theodolites
- Bucket augers
- Dental picks
- Pneumatic airscribes
- Plumb bobs
- Water screening devices
- Electrical resistivity instruments
- Underwater digital cameras
- Inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopes ICP-MS
- Vernier calipers
- Binoculars
- Inductively coupled plasma emission spectroscopes ICP-ES
- Digital calipers
- Conductivity probes
- Digital cameras
- Glass beakers
- Petrographic microscopes
- Slide scanners
- Geophysical magnetometers
- Metal detectors
- Digital video cameras
- Laboratory precision balances
- Flat-ended shovels
- Fume hoods
- Mesh sifting screens
- Soil probes
- Laboratory scalpels
- Vacuum freeze-drying chambers
- Laptop computers
- Scuba diving equipment
- Drying racks
- Personal computers
- Microsoft Outlook
- Archeological Sites Management Information System ASMIS
- Graphics software
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- SPSS
- Leica Geosystems ERDAS IMAGINE
- ESRI ArcGIS software
- ESRI ArcInfo
- Golden Software Surfer
- Microsoft Office
- Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop
- Web browser software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Excel
- Trimble Pathfinder Office
- Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat
- Microsoft Access
- Automated National Catalog System ANCS
- Microsoft Word
- ESRI ArcView